P: Allow UI to specify resolution above 10,000+ DPI

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January 27, 2015
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I am becoming very frustrated by the lack of response or rationale for a very simple problem we have with the later versions of Photoshop. We are an R&D firm out of Colorado that works with multinational central banks and press companies to supply trial graphics for currency and anti-counterfeiting purposes. Recently we have started using a resolution that exceeds 10,000 DPI to design for their presses, as such resolution is needed and used in currency to give the sharpest images possible (and thus deter counterfeiting).

Given the advances in printing technology, it seems counterintuitive for Adobe to cap resolution settings for the user when before it was never done. Why the change? We legitimately need the extra pixels for mapping and design purposes for machines that support this. Microprinting will lead to resolutions that easily surpass 10,000 DPI in the very near future so I'm not sure why Adobe thinks it's necessary to take a step backwards. If it is not possible to reintroduce a cap more in like with past versions (I believe it's like 170k DPI from CS5 and earlier), we are forced to step backwards to older versions of CS5 and before.

Please make a note of this problem and take action to fix it as I see no detriment to re-introducing a higher resolution cap that has been present on other versions of Photoshop for years.

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FeedbackCommunityMember

Inspiring

Looks like that limit has been there a very long time. But you can open some file formats that have a resolution value and inherit a value higher than the Photoshop UI allows.

What resolution limit do you need/want?

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J453

Legend

I see you have CM selected for your units - which I think is triggering a bug in the File>New dialog (it should force the PPI to 9999.999 in that case). If you select Image>Image Size... after the document is created, what does it report for dimensions and resolution? I'm getting a wacked out 1in, 1in 1PPI in the Image Size dialog.

mike117Author

Participating Frequently

Hi Jeff. Thank you for your prompt response.

OK, that seems odd. Are your versions all separately installed without an upgrade serial key? Because we have our versions of CS 3 and CS 5 in the office (no upgrades) and we have never had an issue picking the res we want. So, imagine our disappointment when we find CS 6 and later are not working for us.

I even used a CS5 trial version (downloaded from Adobe last month with my ID), and I had no resolution cap with working above 10,000 DPI. I luckily got my files out to our client before the trial expired.

I will attach some screen shots showing us working with a few of our high-res files in CS5.

Regardless of whether it's a capped resolution or not across all versions, we hope to have this limit lifted (or raised significantly) to accommodate future images that can be micro printed at such high numbers. Please take this into consideration. We are a growing company and would like to use the latest software versions instead of hunting for vendors on the internet. This is risky and time consuming. Thank you.

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J453

Legend

Hi Mike,

I just tried this with CS1, CS3, CS5 and they all have a 9999.999 cap as well. It appears to be a limitation going back some time.

It's possibly something we could tackle as a feature request.

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